How do Tron handles fasten together?

[soslo]

I have the screws for the top of the handle, but what about the 2 holes in the lower handle?

I am trying to secure the handles to a heavily reworked Happ Super lever...but I am thinking that I will need to make a custom hollow lever of some sort. Any suggestions?

[Frostillicus]

The bottom parts of the handle screw right into the metal shaft of the original joystick.  Prevents twisting.

Maybe you can hack the one from happ controls?  Or find a shaft the same diameter and drill some holes in it to match.

[soslo]

I'm going to OSH after work to look for the hollow shaft.

The artwork looks awesome BTW...I've been waiting to post until I get the pics developed...

[rdagger]

The handles can be mounted to any pipe that is about 7/8" in diameter.  I was inspired by 1up and made a Tron joystick using the plastic sides, a perfect 360 and a 1/2 PVC pipe.  PVC is great because it is very easy to tap out the holes for the metric security socket cap bolts that are typically used.  I made the PVC version as a template and had planned on building the final version with metal conduit;  however, the PVC worked so well that metal was not necessary.

[soslo]

Well, I found some galvanized pipe that is the same OD as a Happ Super js. Its acutally a hollow nipple, so on one end I put a coupling 1/4 to 1/2 inch coupler on it and it fits in the bottom of the Tron handle.

I used a 1/2" sprinkler riser (1up mentioned this I think) on the inside. I'm still working on it, but I think this will work perfectly...after some modification of course  

[soslo]

well, here is how I did it:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=13908

turned out nice IMO - very sturdy